1985.52.765

Collection type

Object

Description

Amulet, enamel pendant with painted religious figures one one side, and an inscription on the other, in a metal frame with a loop for suspension. [RB 04/04/2012]

Long description

Amulet, enamel pendant with painted religious figures one one side, and an inscription on the other, in a metal frame with a loop for suspension. A translation of the inscription on the reverse of the pendant reads: 'Icon of St Mitrophan and St Tikhon of Zadonsk, the wonder worker'. [RB 17/05/2012]

Geographical reference

Russia

Europe > Eastern Europe > Russia

Person

Field collector R. Volkow

PRM source Wellcome Institute

PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1931

Date collected

By 1931

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1985

Materials and processes

Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Enamel, Material Pigment, Process Enamelled, Process Painted, Process Inscribed

Dimensions

Length x Width: max 29 x 20 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1985.52.765 Other numbers: 1466

Research and responses

A translation of the inscription on the reverse of the pendant reads: 'Icon of St Mitrophan and St Tikhon of Zadonsk, the wonder worker'. The translation was provided by Fr Stephen Platt, from the Russian Orthodox Parish of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Oxford. He also provided the following information: 'The objects are enamel Orthodox icon medallions, common in Russia especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They were popular especially with travellers and soldiers, and often they were worn around the neck, together with the baptismal cross, or pinned to a shirt of similar. Sometimes they were of the particular person's patron saint.' [RB 17/05/2012]

Search terms: Religion, Ornament, Figure, Writing, Amulet, Pendant, Neck Ornament, Religious Object, Inscription